Category Archives: General

I just saw a link to this at Matt’s No-sword, and I had to include my own link to it for nostalgia’s sake. I had no idea the song was sung by the Pointer Sisters, though. If that’s not enough … Continue reading →

I actually ran across this word reading Robotech, believe it or not. Götterdämmerung – German for “Twilight of the Gods”, which is itself a transliteration of the Norse word ragnarökkr (Ragnarok). Also the name of one of Wagner’s operas.

Well, I’ve finally gotten my first research paper submitted and accepted. It will appear in this year’s Proceedings of SPIE. The title of the paper is “Drag-a-drop: a characterization tool for immersion lithography.” So my friend Mitch asked me, “Have … Continue reading →

Well, our whole family is sick. I don’t know if it’s a really bad cold or a mild flu, but both myself and my daughter Karisa have been down and out for the past couple of days. My wife Ryoko … Continue reading →

I know I’m lazy, and I should have finished this about a month ago. Anyway, the program finally got to Dr. Konishi. Unlike all of the bombastic and overblown dialogue we had to endure up to this point, Dr. Konishi’s … Continue reading →

I had posted something on this earlier, but with the change in domain, etc., that last post was inadvertently lost. I’ll do my best to rebuild it. There are many strange legends that are floating around, if you’re curious and … Continue reading →

Well, this week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I took the PhD qualifying exams. I think I did OK on them, but the transport test (heat, mass, and momentum) had a couple of curve balls that I could have handled … Continue reading →

My friend Mitch wrote the following comment to my earlier post. Wow, your advisor decision in some way influences what kind of research you have to do (that is not only your own research interests within a given field)? The … Continue reading →